US History B Final Exam Review | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

What does "detente" mean in the context of the Cold War?

Easing tension and improving relations between countries

Building more weapons

Stopping the spread of communism throughout Europe

Promoting the exploration of outer space

What was the main goal of the containment policy during the Cold War?

To stop the spread of communism to other countries

To promote freedom of speech

To encourage trade with other countries

To decrease the the number of nuclear weapons globally

Which decade? 9/11 attacks, PATRIOT Act, Hurricane Katrina

2000s

Which decade? Clinton, Internet Boom, LA riots

1990s

Which decade? Elvis, Baby Boom, Strict Gender Roles, Korean War

1950s

Which decade? Ronald Reagan, AIDs Epidemic, MTV, Grafitti Culture

1980s

Which decade? Watergate Scandal, Jimmy Carter, Roe v. Wade, End of the Vietnam War

1970s

Which decade? Hippies, The Beatles, Woodstock, The Moon Landing

1960s

Which terrorist group was responsible for the 9/11 attacks?

Al Qaeda

The Taliban

ISIS

Boko Haram

Which deadly, Category 5 hurricane hit New Orleans and the surroundings areas in 2005?

Katrina

Emily

Andrew

Maria

Which 1980s graffiti artist is known for this signature style?

Keith Haring

Futura 2000

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Zephyr

Who was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court (1981)?

Sanda Day O'Connor

Elena Kagan

Sonya Sotomayor

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

What cable channel debuted in 1981?

MTV

Nickelodeon

ESPN

HBO

Who was the U.S. President who served two consecutive terms from 1981 to 1989?

Ronald Reagan

Which US president resigned in 1974 as a result of the Watergate scandal?

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

John F. Kennedy

Jimmy Carter

Which Amendment, ratified in 1971, changed the voting age from 21 to 18?

26th

25th

27th

21st

Members of the 1960s counterculture were known as...

Hippies

The first televised presidential debate happened in which year?

1960

1970

1980

1950

What incident in 1962 nearly led to a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and Russia?

Cuban Missile Crisis

My Lai Massacre

Tonkin Gulf Incident

Bay of Pigs Invasion

The Bay of Pigs (1961) was an attempted invasion & coup against what government?

Cuba

Who was the president of the United States from January 20, 1961 until his assassination on November 22, 1963?

John F. Kennedy

In 1953 Julius and Ethel _______ were executed for espionage (passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union)

Rosenberg

Sacco

Vanzetti

McCarthy

Which iconic American singer was dubbed "The King of Rock and Roll" in the 1950s?

Elvis Presley

The Stonewall Rebellion is considered a key moment in which movement?

LGBTQ+ Movement

Civil Rights Movement

Women's Rights Movement

Anti-War Movement

Rosa Parks' refusal to move seats for a white passenger triggered a bus boycott in which city?

Montgomery

Selma

Birmingham

Tulsa

This 1972 law prohibits sex-based discrimination in education

Title IX

Equal Rights Amendment

Gender Equality Act

Equal Opportunity in Education Act

In 1965, Cesar Chavez initiated a national boycott of _____ in order to fight for the rights of migrant farm workers

grapes

lettuce

tomatoes

apples

The ______ were the first Black students to enroll at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas

Little Rock Nine

Arkansas Trailblazers

Central High Pioneers

Freedom Fighters

Who said it? “If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.”

Malcolm X

Martin Luther King Jr.

Cesar Chavez

Vincent Chin

Who said it? "...One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Malcolm X

Richard Aoki

Harvey Milk

In 1968, Latino students in ____ led a city wide walkout of their schools to protest against discrimination

Los Angeles, CA

New York, NY

Chicago, IL

Houston, TX

This 1965 act outlawed literacy tests & poll taxes which were used to prevent African Americans from voting

Voting Rights Act

Racial Equality Act

Voter Suppression Prohibition Act

Fair Ballot Act

This 1964 act outlawed segregation in public places, schools & workplaces

Civil Rights Act

Segregation Prohibition Act

Equality and Integration Act

Racial Discrimination Abolition Act

This organization was formed in 1968 to fight against poverty, discrimination, & police brutality within the Native American community

American Indian Movement

Indigenous Rights Coalition

Native Equality Alliance

First Nations Liberation Front

Between 1969 - 1971, dozens of Native Americans occupied ________ to protest treaty violations & injustice

Alcatraz Island

The White House

The Statue of Liberty

The Grand Canyon

This Asian-American activist was a member of the Black Panther Party & later discovered to be an FBI informant

Richard Aoki

Philip Vera Cruz

Fred Korematsu

Vincent Chin

In 1972, the United States sent the national _______ team on a tour of China.

ping-pong

soccer

tennis

basketball

The ____ Theory was the belief that if one Southeast Asian country fell to communism (like Vietnam), that neighboring countries (like Laos or Cambodia) would also turn to communism.

Domino

Avalanche

Detente

Containment

A powerful herbicide that was used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover and crops for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops.

Agent Orange

Napalm

DTD

Mustard Gas

This is a jellied gasoline dropped in large canisters that explode on impact and cover large areas in flames; this was dropped by U.S. planes during the Vietnam War in order to destroy the jungle & expose Vietcong hideouts

Napalm

Agent Orange

Mustard Gas

ICMBs

Which event occurred first?

The USSR launched Sputnik

Yuri Gagarin became the 1st person in orbit

The first men landed on the moon

The Apollo Soyuz Mission

In the United States, one result of WWII was that...

the number of women in the workforce increased

people of color gained full civil rights & economic equality

the Great Depression was prolonged

industrial wages decreased

When Franklin D. Roosevelt made the statement “a date that will live in infamy” he was referring to...

The December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan

Germany’s invasion of France on June 12, 1940

The October 6, 1939 invasion of Poland by Germany

The June 6, 1944 invasion of France by the Allies

Once American forces captured the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa during WWII, they...

began FIREBOMBING dozens of Japanese Cities

dropped NUCLEAR BOMBS on five Japanese cities

led LAND INVASIONS of dozens of coastal cities in Japan

deployed AGENT ORANGE over the Japanese wilderness

The use of this cards like this, issued by the federal government, was intended to...

conserve essential goods for for military use

register men for the draft

increase the use of gasoline

encourage increased production of consumer goods

The 1973 Supreme Court ruling that protected a woman’s right to abortion until it was overturned in 2022.

Roe v. Wade

The 1896 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal, thus establishing the “separate but equal” doctrine until it was overturned in 1954.

Plessy v. Ferguson

Brown v. Board

Roe v. Wade

Obergefell v. Hodges

The landmark 2015 case in which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage.

Obergefell v. Hodges

Plessy v. Ferguson

Roe v. Wade

Korematsu v. US

The 1954 case in which the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional (unlawful, illegal).

Brown v. Board of Education

This NASA mission successfully landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969, with Neil Armstrong becoming the first person to step onto the lunar surface.

Apollo 11

Endeavor 7

Gemini 4

Voyager 2

The codename given to the sustained American bombing campaign conducted against North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Operation Rolling Thunder

Operation Overlord

Operation Enduring Freedom

Operation Manhattan

A Cold War military concept that states that a nuclear attack by either the U.S. or USSR would lead to the destruction of both countries due to the number of nuclear weapons on both sides.

Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)

Nuclear Arms Race Doctrine (NARD)

Total Annihilation Strategy (TAS)

Strategic Balance Theory (SBT)

This group of 29 Native American soldiers made significant contributions to the Pacific war effort during WWII by creating an unbreakable code.

Navajo Code Talkers

Cherokee Code Breakers

Sioux Cryptographers

Apache Encryption Unit

As a result of the Korean War...

North Korea and South Korea remained divided.

North Korea gained complete control.

North and South Korea were unified.

The United States attacked N. Korea with atomic weapons.

After WWII, the _____ was created to promote world peace and negotiation amongst nations

United Nations

League of Nations

Alliance for Progress

Peace Corps

In the '50s, this anticommunist hysteria spread in the US. Many people were accused, w/o evidence, of being communist...

The Red Scare

The Soviet Hunt

The Communist Trials

The Soviet Crisis

In August of 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of ____ & ____ - leading to their surrender & the end of WWII.

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Tokyo & Kyoto

Osaka & Yokohama

Nagoya & Sapporo

This was the code name for the secret U.S. government program to build the atomic bomb

Manhattan Project

Operation Rolling Thunder

Project Apollo

Operation Overlord

June 6, 1944 (D-Day), nearly 7,000 ships carrying more than 100,000 Allied soldiers invaded...

Normandy, France

Berlin, Germany

Hiroshima, Japan

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

The _______ were the first black military pilots, whose courage led to the eventual integration of the U.S military

Tuskegee Airmen

Harlem Hellfighters

Buffalo Soldiers

The 442nd Infantry

During WWII, which group of Americans was forcefully sent to "internment" camps as a "military necessity?"

Japanese Americans

Mexican Americans

German Americans

Italian Americans

During WWII, which countries were part of the Axis Powers?

Germany, Italy and Japan

Great Britain, the USSR, the US and France

Germany, Austria Hungary, China

France, Australia, Canada

What was the name for the military strategy used by the United States to fight in the Pacific during WWII?

Island Hopping

Trench Warfare

The Manhattan Plan

Blitzkrieg

Which event caused the United States to finally enter WWII in 1941?

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

The Holocaust

Germany's invasion of Poland

The sinking of the Lusitania

Which event is considered to be the first official act of World War II?

Germany's invasion of Poland

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

The bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

The D-Day Invasion

In 1941, the "__________" was passed which allowed the U.S. to lend weapons & supplies to the Allies.

Lend-Lease Act

War Weapons Act

Mutual Defense Act

Cash & Carry Policy

After the war, the United States & ____ emerged as superpowers

the Soviet Union

France

Germany

China

Which American President made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan to end WWII?

Truman

Eisenhower

Kennedy

Roosevelt